9. Theory of Law

• Tetsu Sakurai (Kobe University),

  Law and Religion: Can the Secular State Control Religious Nationalism?

• Oskar Polanski (European University Institute),

  How is Legal Order Threatened? A Legal Theoretical Assessment of the European Union’s Legal Order

• Matheus Pelegrino da Silva (USP – FAPESP),

  Suspension as an Effect of Legal Dynamics

• Dan Priel (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University),

  Rival Legal Realisms

• Nobuaki Yamamoto (Yokohama National University),

  Can Legal Causation be Natural Scientific Causation?

• Monika Zalewska (University of Lodz),

  Fundamentality of Hans Kelsen’s Normativism in the ‘General Theory of Norms’

• Tze-Shiou Chien (Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica),

  Economic Analysis of Tort Liability: A Right Approach

• Masato Yoshihara (Kyoto University),

  Practice-Based Theory of Law as an institutional Artifact

• Ewa Ilczuk (Jagiellonian University),

  Mental Costs of Social Media: the Attention Economy as a Challenge for Regulation

• Gen Fukushima (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science),

  A Systemic Approach to Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood

• Jesús Vega López (University of Alicante),

  Genres of Legal-Philosophical Discourse: a Typology

• Wojciech Engelking (University of Warsaw),

  The Case for Legal Modernism: Early 20th Century Irrationalism and Jurisprudence

• Prasenjit Biswas (North-Eastern Hill University Shillong)

  Swaraj as Epistemic Justice

• Arinori Kawamura (Nagasaki University)

  Law and Culture: Are Cultural identities that violate human rights under international law justified?

• Rika Sasaki (The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics School of Legal and Political Studies),

  Why We Should Conceptualize Adaptive Preference Formally: As an Ameliorative Approach

• Dawid Bunikowski (State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek (Poland) University of Eastern Finland, University of Guyana)

  A ‘Theory’ of “Divine Jurisprudence”

• Flávio Baumgarten (Karl-Franzens Universität),

  The Principles' Theory in Kant

• Fernando Leal (FGV Direito Rio)

  The Force of Contingency: Institutional Limits of an Attempt at Institutionalizing Reason

• Maria Besomi (University of Edinburgh),

  Two Instances of 'Legal Formalism’

• Konstantinos Farmakidis Markou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens),

  Jus post bellum: Principles and Complications

• Yudong Chen (Nanjing Normal University School of Law)

  Navigating Legal Development Between Formal Justice and Substantive Justice: A Perspective Through the Lens of Holmes' Legal Pragmatism Advocates

• Rokuro Ayabe (Nagoya college),

  Between a Theory of Norms and Critical Legal Studies

• Ana Van Liedekerke (KU Leuven),

  The Constitutional Text as Modern Totem

• Jia-Yao Chang (Kanazawa University),

  Differences between Proportionality in Germany and Balancing in the United States

• Soim Lee (CRMEP, Kingston University),

  Performativity in Law - Illocutionary Norm-Speech Act

• José de Sousa E Brito (Tribunal Constitucional, Lisbon),

  Climbing the Same Mountain: Utilitarianism and Aristotelianism

• Koga Ueda (Doshisha University)

  The Distinction between Law and Non-law from a Perspective of Normative Power

10. Social Philosophy

• Matti Ilmari Niemi (University of Eastern Finland),

  Law as an Expression of Adopted Justice

• Kazuki Matsuda (Waseda University),

  The Best Available Parent Principle and Procreators’ Responsibilities to Their Offspring

• Markku Kiikeri

  The Dialectics Between "Constellative" Moral Values, Ethical Discourse, and Legal Principles

• Seiko Urayama (Seijo University),

  Why Should We Protect Refugees？—Reconstructing the Legitimacy Theory of the International Order of Sovereign States as the Basis for the Obligation to Protect Refugees

• Signa Daum Shanks (University of Ottawa Faculty of Law),

  Why do We View Urban Settings as the most Inspirational for Legal Tenets? The case for Rural Landscapes as Inspiration

• Christophe Duvert (Soongsil University),

  Sociological leads for defining the concept of justice in South Korea

• Rachel Friedman (Tel Aviv University),

  An Aristotelian Framework for Social Cooperation

• Bong Jin Ko (Jeju Law school),

  Functional Differentiation as Normative Task

• Yoonseong Lee (Constitutional Court of Korea),

  A New Interpretation on Is and Ought of Hume

• Thiago Guilherme (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo),

  The Relentless Balance and the Poetic Justice in to Kill a Mockinbird: Aspects of Injustice, Retribution through Revenge and the Rebalancing of Asymmetries through the Imponderable

• Yusuf Enes Karatas (Ankara University Faculty of Law),

  Is There a "Western" Legal Culture?

• Pratyush Kumar (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main),

  Systems Theory and Societal Constitutionalism in India

• Petra Gümplova (Friedrich Schiller University Jena),

  Seafloor (In)Justice: A Critical Appraisal of the Extension of Sovereign Rights to Natural Resources on the Continental Shelf

• Don Ross and Cuizhu Wang (University College Cork, University of Cape Town, Georgia State University, Jagiellonian University),

  Modelling Conditionally Respected Social Norms: A Critique from the Intentional Stance

• Kun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)

  Rethinking "Ren-Yi" in Confucian Ethics: The Emotional Source of a "Care Principle"